PDCCH RELIABILITY ENHANCEMENTS WITH MULTIPLE TRPs

A wireless communication device for reception of physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, repetitions over multiple control resource sets, CORESETs, in a cellular communications system, the wireless communication device comprising:

• one or more transmitters;
• one or more receivers;
• and
• processing circuitry associated with the one or more transmitters and the one or more receivers, the processing circuitry configured to cause the wireless communication device to:
• receive a configuration of a first CORESET and a second CORESET;
• receive, from one or more network nodes, a first repetition of a PDCCH carrying downlink control information, DCI, in the first CORESET and a second repetition of the PDCCH carrying the same a DCI in the second CORESET, wherein the first and second repetitions of the PDCCH have either:
• (a) different channel encoding or (b) a same channel encoding;
• and
• decode the DCI based on the first repetition of the PDCCH and/or the second repetition of the PDCCH.

A network node for transmission of at least one of two or more physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, repetitions over multiple control resource sets, CORESETs, in a cellular communications system, the network node comprising:

• processing circuitry configured to cause the network node to:
• transmit, to a wireless communication device, a configuration of a first CORESET and a second CORESET;
• transmit, to the wireless communication device, at least one of a first repetition of a PDCCH carrying downlink control information, DCI, in the first CORESET and a second repetition of the PDCCH carrying the same DCI in the second CORESET, wherein the first and second repetitions of the PDCCH have either:
• (a) different channel encoding or (b) a same channel encoding.